Craftwork S1E3: Magic Realism, Intertextuality, & Making it Beautiful w/ William Ping

Check out episode #3 of Craftwork, featuring William Ping. William talks with Mike Thorn and Miriam Richer about historical fiction, hauntology, Animal Crossing, and so much more.

William Ping is a novelist and journalist, born and raised in St. John’s. His debut novel Hollow Bamboo was published by HarperCollins in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the BMO Winterset Award, and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award as well as being longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He has previously been published in ‘Us, Now,’ Hard Ticket and Riddle Fence. William is also known for his contributions to CBC News, where he can most often be heard reading the news.

Books mentioned in this episode:

Waiting for Godot; Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 – Cassie Brown and Harold Horwood
The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers
The Wapshot Chronicle – John Cheever
Trust Exercise – Susan Choi
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Less Than Zero; American Psycho; Imperial Bedrooms – Bret Easton Ellis
The Beautiful and Damned; The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Open – Lisa Moore
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different – Chuck Palahniuk
Son of a Trickster – Eden Robinson
The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio – Pu Songling